Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/24

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Subject: Re: Re[2]: Filters
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 10:01:19 -0700

At 08:39 AM 9/24/97 PST, you wrote:

>      If Leitz thought that filters were not necessary, why did they sell 
>     them with Leitz name?
>

Before 1965, Leitz did not put UV inhibitor in the lens cement. UV filters
were sometimes necessary. There are still a lot of those older lenses around.

Today, however, like NeverReady cases, it's an additional profit item for
the camera stores. All modern Leica lenses have UV filtering built-in and
do not require yet another UV filter. If you want to use one to protect
your lens from something (?) that's OK as most of the time it won't degrade
your image very much.

Jim